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    • Cardiac Nursing

      • 1st Edition
      • August 8, 2007
      • Debra K. Moser + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 3 5 5 9 8
      Cardiac Nursing: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease is the only comprehensive text available for cardiac nurses. This brand-new reference emphasizes both evidence-based practice and hands-on care in a high-tech, high-touch approach that meets the high-stakes needs of cardiac and critical care nurses. What's more, the book makes the material easily accessible by using clear language, straightforward text, and plenty of illustrations, lists, and tables. This book is the third in a series of companion texts for Braunwald's Heart Disease and the first specifically for nurses.

    • Acute and Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialists

      • 1st Edition
      • May 24, 2007
      • American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)
      • Mary G McKinley
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 1 4 1 6 0 0 1 5 6 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 2 6 2 2 0
      2007 AJN Book of the Year Award WinnerAcute and Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialists: Best Practices presents the knowledge and tools the CNS needs to provide the best standards of practice and performance. It focuses on the role of the CNS in acute and critical care, emphasizing the relationship between critical care nursing, the patient, and the environment of care. Divided into 3 main sections, the framework of the book is based on the Scope and Standards of Practice for the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Acute and Critical Care and the AACN's synergy model. This book delivers up-to-date information for today's health care along with practical tools for the CNS in acute and critical care settings.

    • Comprehensive Coronary Care

      • 4th Edition
      • May 7, 2007
      • Nigel I. Jowett + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 2 8 5 9 5
      The new edition continues to be a practical, easy to understand, and up to date resource for managing coronary disease. It not only encompasses modern cardiology practice, but also considers how the patient came to arrive on coronary care, and what will happen them after they leave. The combined authorship of doctor and nurse reflects the close teamwork vital to the management of both patients and their families. Management of the cardiac patent is a complex process and this book has a clear approach conveying the necessary information in an easily understood way. It also has an excellent evidence base to ensure best practice and should appeal to staff in every cardiac unit.

    • ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing

      • 1st Edition
      • October 23, 2006
      • Leanne Aitken + 2 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 7 2 9 5 7 7 7 0 0
      Developed in conjunction with the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN), the text has been written and edited by the most senior and experienced critical care nursing clinicians and academics across the region. ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing is a resource that will foster the development of skilled and confident critical care nurses. This comprehensive text provides detailed coverage of a number of specialty areas within critical care nursing including intensive care, emergency nursing, cardiac nursing, neuroscience nursing and acute care. It will encourage students to be reflective practitioners, ethical decision-makers and providers of evidence-based care.

    • Mosby's Critical Care Nursing Reference

      • 4th Edition
      • April 4, 2006
      • Susan B. Stillwell
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 0 6 0 8 9 9
      Developed to provide nurse clinicians with a resource for the management of adult critical care patients, Mosby's Critical Care Nursing Reference condenses the most essential information needed by nurses working in the ICU. This valuable, pocket-sized reference provides information on broad topics that apply to a variety of critically ill patients, as well as detailed information on organ diseases. Chapters are dedicated to psychosocial concerns, complementary therapies, and the unique needs of a pediatric patient in an adult ICU. Therapeutic modalities and pharmacology are both examined, with information that is useful for the student, the new nurse, and the experienced professional.

    • Principles and Practice of High Dependency Nursing

      • 2nd Edition
      • December 6, 2005
      • Mandy Sheppard + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 7 0 2 0 2 7 1 2 3
      This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book provides invaluable information for nurses working in all acute hospital wards and departments including recovery units, high dependency units, acute surgical or medical wards, and accident and emergency units. Some chapters are devoted to specific clinical areas such as cardiac care and respiratory care, with others covering broader clinical issues such as pain management and post-operative care. The underpinning anatomy, physiology and pharmacology are included in relevant chapters. In all these areas there is a strong emphasis on clinical application. Chapters on non-clinical, yet vital, components of high dependency nursing are also included to address aspects such as the development, management, interpersonal and social issues associated with high dependency care.

    • ECG in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care

      • 1st Edition
      • September 29, 2004
      • Theodore C. Chan + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      ECG in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care provides a comprehensive, clinically relevant resource on electrocardiography for those who care for patients in the emergency setting. The book provides succinct information on ECG abnormalities and their aetiologic differential diagnoses, diagnostic criteria for the ECG manifestations of various clinical diseases/entities, and many 12-lead ECG examples for review.

    • Hemodynamic Monitoring

      • 3rd Edition
      • April 3, 2002
      • Gloria Oblouk Darovic
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 3 1 8 7 3 0
      • Paperback
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      Praised by nursing students for its straightforward language and readability, this interdisciplinary reference on bedside hemodynamic monitoring covers the technical aspects of clinical monitoring, including diagnostic and management principles for fluid-filled systems, intracranial hemodynamics, open-heart surgery patients, pediatric patients, and more! Well illustrated chapters detail exactly how to insert and manipulate catheters safely, read monitors properly, and interpret readings accurately. Precise illustrations deliver crucial details on delicate techniques. Content on the strengths and shortcomings of various hemodynamic monitoring modalities has been expanded significantly in the third edition, and a new chapter on intra-aortic balloon pumping has been added.TOC.

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